Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


futile on warrant sworn out by r W.
McAfee, an agent Of the New England So
ciety Tor the Suppression of Vice, on
charge OF sending obscene literature
through the mails A trunk full Of vie
pictures and books was seized. The pris-
oners were taken to Topeka and held for
trial.
THE name of the post-ofice in Russell
County, hitherto known as Blue Stem, has
been changed to Lucas; the post-onice at
Red Clover, johnson County, has been dis
continued, and a postoffice to be called
Lockwood has been established upon the
public land strip, Indian Territory, with
Chauncy d. Fisk as postmaster.
A HOTEL three stories high and with a
frontage of $50 feet is to be erected by
Kansas City company at Peabody.
W. X. FOWLER was recently fined $50 in
the Topeka police court for selling hard
cider. He appealed to the district court.
TX an alteration recently between d.
Ogden and j. d. Carter, at Lancaster. Og-
den stabbed Carter in the abdomen, infict-
ing wound which resulted in death in
about ten days. Ogden mas jailed.
THE Labor Commissioner recently re-
ceived letter from Switzerland ask
ing that reports of the bureau be sent
to that country. The letter was signed
''Schweis MISUNDERSTANDING, Secretariat
OuVrler SulSSe."
On the 2Sth Topeka had two sudden
deaths. II. B. Franks dropped dead in
wagon shop, and the wife of George D. Nc
Lean was found dead In bed.
ALL roads in Kansas will sell tickets to
the National Education Association in Chi
cago at one fare for the round trip.
JOHN SMITH, alias Dell Smith, of Kansas
City, has been identified as the murderer OF
z. z. Baxter near Emporia, on May %. 1t
was learned that he had left Kansas City
in com pany with Baxter, and the lattcr's
trunk, the axe with which the murder was
committed and which was stained with
blood, and other articles, were found in the
room he occupied recently in the latter
city, but he had left for parts unknown.
THE Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided adversely the claim of the State OF
Kansas under the act of January %, 1861,
admitting her into the Union, to S44, 100,
being five per cent. of the net proceeds of
certain lands made between July l, 1884
and July 3, 1856, heretofore reserved for
the Cherokee, Kansas, Miami and Usage
tribes Of Indians. The third section of the
compact admitting Kansas into the Union
provided that five per centum of the net
proceeds of sales of public lands lying
within the State which shall be sold by
Congress after the admission of the State
into the Union, after deducting all ex-
penses incident to the same, shall be paid
to the State for the purpose of making pub
lie roads, etc, as the Legislature may di-
rect At that time there was a large
quantity of land held by the tribes named
above by their title of occupancy. The
lands were subsequently ceded to the
United States tor the purpose of being
sold and the proceeds deposited in the
treasury for the benefit of those Indians.
The question at issue was whether the
lands were public in the sense in which
the word was used in the act quoted above.
Upon this question the Secretary decided
in the negative and holds that no such sale
as contemplated by the act has taken
place.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued a procla-
nation organizing Haskell County, one of
the new counties created by the last Legis-
lature. The census returns, made June %,
showed 2,S41 bona fide inhabitants, Of
which number $50 are houSeholders. The |
taxable property of the county, exclusive
of railroad property, is $3.50, 119, of which
S5T7. 6SS is real estate. Santa Fee is made
the temporary county seat.
Hon. D. W. WILDER assumed the duties
of State Insurance Commissioner on July l. |
In February last the enumeration was Ia |
ken to fix the temporary county seat of
Morton County. The enumeration reported !
favorable to Richfield and Governor Mar !
tin designated that town as county seat, |
appointing temporary officers. Frisco, an |
other candidate for the honor, rebelled |
against this and held an election for Off |
GERS, giving the county two county seats, |
with two sets of county offic ers. The rival |
~ between the two towns was anything |
but friendly and it was feared that fire. |
arms would be resorted to.
TEN new colleges are being built in Kan
sas and two more will soon be commenced. |
THE property and franchise Of the To |
peka street railway recently pur chased for |
s250. o 90 by syndicate of Boston and other |
was turned over few days |
since.
THE other morning lightning struck the |
,upola of the court house at Emporia, ran !
Town into the second story and set it on
ire. The sheriff and his family occupied |
ured. His eldest son lay unconscious for
an hour. Lightning, fire and water virtual
y ruined the building.
ATCHIsoN is out Of luck. There is no
money IN the treasury, her policemen and
iremen have been discharged and the
street lights put out.
A FLoATER was di scovered in the river at
Leavenworth the other afternoon. The
body was badly decomposed, and there was
In one of the pockets of the vest was found
package of letters signed by H Johnson,
# No. 421 Gertrude street, Burlington,
owa, and addressed to the Occidental Ho-
el, st. Joseph. The head was crushed in
So ME twenty years ago Mrs. II. L. Ho1-
nan, of Bourbon County, was the wife of a
nan named Rodebaugh, in Indiana. They
separated and she was awarded the custody
If her four-year-old boy. A short time
afterwards Rodebaugh stole the boy from
lis mother, and after keeping him for seven
years turned him out to shift for himself.
The father was subsequently accidently
titled in Cincinnati and the mother mar
led again. She made a thorough search
or her lost child and gave him up as dead.
Recently Mr.. Charles Rodebaugh, an cleo
rician of st. Louis, heard of Mrs. Holman